344 The Literary Treasures of Longleat. 
forgive the sins of the said abbot when in articulo mortis, like as 
the Roman Pontiffs were accustomed to do. This is dated at Avignon. 
Then follow the prefatory matters appointed by Edward I. to be 
prefixed to all monastic chartularies, having relation to his right to 
a feudal superiority over Scotland. These are six in number :—1l. 
The Genealogy of the Kings of England, (beginning from Adam) 
down to Edward III. 2. Concerning the origin of Giants in the 
Island of Albion. 38. Of the length and breadth of England. 4. 
A citatory letter of Pope Bonafice tor the kingdom of Scotland. 5. 
A Declaration of the King of England about the affairs of Scotland. 
6. A letter of the barons to Pope Boniface on behalf of the rights 
of the Kingdom of Scotland. The date of the last charter registered 
appears to be about 1361. At page 427 is a register of deeds in the 
Treasury at Wells in the eighth year of Bishop William de Marchia, 
- A.D. 1301. This list is not found in the Glastonbury Cartulary in 
the Bodleian Library,-(Wood’s MS. A.) There are also registers, 
more or less perfect, of Maiden Bradley Priory, Co. Wilts, Cirencester 
Abbey, Co. Glouc., and of St. Mary of Tame, Co. Oxon. Also a 
rental of the Cistercian Abbey of Strata Florida, Co. Cardigan, a 
book of expenses of Shaftesbury Abbey, 24 H. VIII., Sir W. 
Uvedale being then Seneschal, and a rental of lands at Prestbury, 
belonging to the Bishoprick of Hereford. The very old register of 
Hereford of temp. Edw. I. or II., mentioned in Tanner’s “ Notitia,”’ 
p-. 172, as being at Longleat, is not to be found there now. 
Another most curious and valuable MS. relating to Glastonbury 
Abbey, entirely unknown to Bishop Tanner, Dugdale, and other 
collectors of monastic records, came to light only a few months ago. 
It is a Latin Register of the Abbey made in the first year of Henry 
DE Sotiaco, Apzsot, A.D. 1189, 1 Rich. I., only 106 years later than 
the Domesday Book of William I. It is, in fact, a “ Domesday 
Book of the Abbey,’ corresponding exactly, in form, with the 
“ Domesday Book of St. Paul’s London,” published by the Camden 
Society, and so admirably edited by the late Archdeacon Hale. But 
besides the estates belonging to the abbey, with the names of the 
tenants, description of their tenures, &ec., it contains an account of 
the establishment maintained in the abbey itself, the different officers. 

